Bug 78432

Summary:	lm-sensors ebuild filters -fPIC, messing up hardened kernels
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Chris Snyder <csnyder>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Tim Yamin (RETIRED) <plasmaroo>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	seemant
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Chris Snyder 2005-01-17 15:12:57 UTC

The lm-sensors ebuild filters the -fPIC compiler flag on all platforms except AMD64, which causes it to not run under a hardened kernel with PAX turned on. Removing the filter allowed it to run and did not seem to cause any problems.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-17 16:11:30 UTC

Seemant, the ChangeLog says you added the filter a long long time ago; can you remember what this was needed for by any chance? If you can't I guess then we can just remove the -fPIC filter...

Comment 2 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-27 11:18:44 UTC

No reply from Seemant, guess removing it won't break anything...